How Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power (www.nytimes.com)
from breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 16:53
https://lemmy.ca/post/28892288

The group has abused hostages and Palestinians as it wields rough justice in its efforts to maintain control of Gaza and wage an insurgent war.

Much international attention has focused on Israeli hurdles to delivering aid to Palestinians, its military operations that have killed tens of thousands of people and a bombing campaign that has reduced cities to rubble. American officials have repeatedly expressed deep frustration with Israel for those failures, too, as well as for not providing basic security in the territory.

But the reality of the war, according to U.S. officials, is that the Israeli military and Hamas carry out questionable acts nearly every day. Many of the reports reviewed by American intelligence analysts involve Israeli actions: military strikes that kill large numbers of civilians, errant attacks on aid convoys or other deadly incidents. But a large number of reports involve Hamas, both its acts of terrorism against hostages and its abuses of Palestinians.

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This article is based on interviews with more than three dozen U.S. and Israeli officials, Hamas members and Palestinian residents of Gaza. Many of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence assessments. Many of the Palestinians spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation.

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AshMan85@lemmy.world on 13 Sep 17:01 next collapse

Arrest little hitler for his genocide against innocent civilians.

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 13 Sep 18:54 collapse

That would leave most of the world vacant.

AshMan85@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 01:00 next collapse

No

nobleshift@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 03:22 collapse

Fine

Deceptichum@quokk.au on 13 Sep 18:41 next collapse

This is not news? It’s an opinion/analysis piece.

breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca on 13 Sep 19:08 next collapse

In what universe? It’s reporting based on dozens of interviews.

abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us on 16 Sep 11:28 collapse

Amin Abed ... in July ... was attacked by Hamas security operatives, who covered his head and dragged him away before repeatedly striking him with hammers and metal bars.

Granted this might have been reported back in July when it happened and I missed it, but that was news to me.

And I think it's important to spread the word on just how repressive and totalitarian the regime of Hamas has been, even to its own people - the ones that it purports to be protecting.

TheFriar@lemm.ee on 14 Sep 01:44 collapse

Guys, it’s possible for two things to be true at the same time. Hamas can be a brutal fundamentalist group that abuses and murders Palestinians while Israel commits genocide. Nuance needs to come back in fashion—or come back from the dead.

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Sep 23:23 collapse

For real